National Book Award. Pulitzer Prize. The cover of Time. Colson Whitehead is undeniably one of our finest and most important contemporary authors. He is a consummate storyteller. A true American original...
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Jul 15th 2019I’m a huge fan of stories where the real world intersects with the weird, the strange, the ‘other.’ I love the idea that we can be going about our ordinary lives and then boom! We’re confronted with...
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Jul 15th 2019The swampy summer continues! Escape the city with these Staff Summer Picks: BEST BEACH READS!
KEATON'S PICK: THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead- This ripped-from-the-...
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YOUR FACE TOMORROW Book 1: Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.
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This final collection of stories –– completed shortly before Johnson's death –– is a masterful, varied offering of superb fiction. The perfect coda to a legendary career. By turns intimate, hilarious and inscrutably strange. These are the last words of a true American original.
What can I say about this magnificent novel? A young Swedish immigrant is separated from his older brother on their way to America. Thus begins an epic journey from California to New York – an anti-Western. Set amidst the Gold rush – this book is amazing.
Perhaps Murakami's most underated novels and my absolute favorite of his works. AFTER DARK presents an interesting set of characters all with their own secrets with only hours (literally) of events. Murakami manages to pack an entire world of mystery into this novel.
Frank, funny, exact, and exposed. Eileen Myles is unapologetically strange, unapologetically queer, and unapologetically New York. An essential, human writer.
This novel takes place in a town that can only be described as "curmudgeonly." Its host of characters ranges in both age and species. Over the course of an evening the sleepy town descends into chaos. Full of a distinctively Eastern European brand of magical realism, this is an enchanting fireside tale.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes